Deborah Niemann – Your Home Dairy

Making Cheese and Everything Dairy With Your Goat Milk

Want to learn to make cheese and other dairy products with goat milk?
Deborah Niemann – Your Home Dairy
Have you tried to make cheese and found it challenging?
Making cheese is not hard, but it can be a challenge because the smallest changes in time, temperature, or ingredients can mean the difference between success and failure.
In this course you’ll learn to make seven different kinds of cheese, as well as yogurt, buttermilk, and sour cream.
Videos guide you step by step from milking your goat to proper milk handling through actually making each of the different cheeses.
You can print out recipes for future use, as well as the form for creating your own personal cheesemaking journal, which Deborah explains in a video.

Course Curriculum

Home Dairy Basics

How to Milk a Goat (5:09)
How to Handle and Store Milk (3:35)
How to Pasteurize Milk (2:59)
Using Store-Bought Milk

Making Simple Dairy Products

Making Yogurt (8:01)
Making Sour Cream and Buttermilk

Cheesemaking Skills

Flocculation Demonstration (8:06)
Flocculation Chart (PDF)
Waxing Cheese (11:53)
Cheesemaking Journal (10:38)

Making Fresh Cheeses

Making Queso Blanco (6:38)
Making Chevre (6:58)
Adding Herbs to Chévre (2:58)
Making Mozzarella the Easy Way (11:32)

Making Aged Cheeses

Making Feta (18:56)
Making Cheddar (25:03)
Making Gouda (15:30)
Making Parmesan (20:16)

Recipes

Pumpkin Chevre Cheesecake
Chocolate Chip Cheesecake (6:36)
Caramel Coffee Creamer
Cream Soup
Nigerian Dwarf Goat Milk Pudding
Making Ice Cream

Resources

Cheesemaking Supplies and Ingredients
Mild vs Tart Yogurt (5:22)